[jonny383]

Termux has saved one of our projects literally tens of thousands of dollars in SMS fees from someone like Twilio.

We have a few areas where non urgent SMS reminders need to be sent to users. We literally just use a couple of cheap ($100) Android phones with termux on an unlimited message plan with a local provider (who approved us for commercial usage).

The actual process is a glorified bash script that pulls API jobs down with curl and then uses termux-sms to actually send the message.

[dspillett]

That sounds like it would be very useful for a personal project, but the docs for termux-sms state "Usage of this API is no longer allowed by Google and we had to disable it to prevent delisting of Termux:API application from the Google Play." - are you building your own version, or are there official builds off Play that include the feature?

[jonny383]

We're running builds from FDroid.

[hiq]

How many SMS do you send daily? Do you have a regular plan with the local provider, or some specially negotiated one?

[jonny383]

Not totally sure but easily > 1,000. We negotiated but not at a high level.

[anitil]

What a fantastic idea!